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You're really not saying much of substance at all with your pedantry. Starlight didn't even use her magic against her villagers to force them to do her bidding like a Trixie or Sombra, they followed her commands because they believed in her. Starlight never secretly partook in magic in the shadows like the preachers/politicans in your example. She acted like a good christian holding back her sinful impulses for the sake of her beliefs. It's really that simple.
Starlight went out into the world and actively convinced others sympathetic to her ideology to start a village with her. I don't know what strange definition you may have for an ideologue, but I consider her more one than you or I.